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The Starry Heavens in April.

The student of the stars will find the
April nights full of material for observa-
ton. Five planets-Venus, Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, and the asteroid Festa-are visible
at the same time in the evening. Three OF
them-Jupiter, Uranus and Vesta-are in
the constellation Virgo. Jupiter, in oppo-
sition, is the feature of the month for the
princely planet will shine throughout the
night from dewyeve till the morning breaks.
He is bright enough to cast shadow, and
keen eyed observers may pick one or
more of his moons or even look upon the
giant of the system dwindled to point in
the full daylight. Saturn is in quadrature
and adorns the western sky with his Sc
rene presence, diversifying his course by a
conjunction with Delta Geminorum, max
ing charming picture that all who are
inclined may watch with the naked eye,
opera glass, or telescope. Venus holds her
court in the west, rising higher in the
heavens every night, and winning tributes
of admiration from all beholders. Slow
moving Mars plunges behind the sun, and.
reappearing on his western side, COM
mences a course as morning star that
next year will bring him near
enough to be success ully interviewed
by terrestrial telescopes. Last, but not
least, the Easter full moon pours a flood OF
silver llSnt over the pedce!ui edTtni anu Is
so beautiful that we feel like granting her
dissolution for putting out the small stars
and dimming the luster of the larger
ones A noteworthy feature in the moon s
course is that on the 18th, at MONDAY,
the day before the full, she was 10 perigree,
or at her nearest point to the earth. Her
diameter was then 49, Or. On the I'd OF
March she was in apogee, or at her greatest
distance from the earth. Her diameter was
then 49, 26D. The Easter full moon will
therefore take on her largest as well as her
fairest proportions.-Pror Journal.
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The Source of Proverbs.

The following are from the Bible:
There is death in the pot.-[2 Kings.
iv, 40.
Lovely and pleasant in their lives, and
in death they were not divided, is spoken
of Saul and Jonathan.-[2 Samuel, i, %.
"a man after his own heart I'll Sam
uel, xiii, IA.
The apple of his eye."-[Deuteronomy,
xix, 81.
"A still small voice. III Kings, xix, II.
Escaped with the skin of my teeth" =
LOB, xix, 20.
Spreading himself like green bay
reel Psalm xxxvii, 35.
Heaps Goals of fire upon his head. -
Proverbs, XIV, %.
"Riches certainly make themselves
wings, not take, as often quoted.-[Pro
cribs, xiii, 5.
No new thing under the un.''-[Eccle-
siastics, i, 9.
"Of making books there is no end."-
Ecclesiastics, xii, u.
Peace, peace, when there is no peace"
made famous and popular by Patrick
Henry, is from jeremiah viii, 2.
There are many more from the sacred
writings which, = if We search, We shall
find"
The popular quotations from Shakes
misquoted will suffice:
"All that glistens is not gold."-[ Mer-
chant of Venice. Generally quoted, All
is not gold that glitters.
Screw your courage to the sticking
place mot point II Macbeth.
Hang out your banners on the outward
mot OUTER walls. ~ Macbeth.
F" Keep the word of promise to our mot
the) ear and break it to our hope. II Mac
beth
The old authors are rich in quotations,
such as the following:
" 1t is an i'll wind turns none to good is
by Thomas Tasser, 1880, though often
quoted 1t is an i'll wind that blows no
one any good"
Christmas comes but once year is
by the same author, and Look ere you
leap by the same, from which Hudibras
but often quoted look before you leap"
"Out of mind as soon as out of sight"
is by Lord Brooke, though usually quoted
" Out of sight, out of mind"
Here are a few from Milton:
"What though the field be lost, all is not
lost"
Awake arise! or be forever fallen"
" Necessity the tyrants' plea"
"That old man eloquent"
Peace hath her victories
Roger LEstrange wrote, Though this
may be play to you, It's death to us"
Hudibras is full of quotations
" All cry and no wool"-not little wool,
as usually quoted.
Count your chickens ere mot before
they're Matched.
Through thick and thin is from Dry
den.
g When Greek meets Greek then comes
the tug of war;" is usual quotation. 1t
should be, When Greeks Joined Greeks
then was the tug of war;" and is from Nat
Lees Rival Queens"
.'0f two evils have chose the least, is
from Prior.
"As clear as a whistle is by Byron
not Lord Byron of this century, but Of 1853.
Goldsmith has Ask me no questions
and I'll tell you no fbs mot lies).
His Gods image cut in ebony. u Thos.
Fuller.
"Wise and mastery inactivity by Mac
intosh. in 1871, is generally attributed to
Randolph.
First in war, first in peace. and first in
the hearts of his fellow-citizens mot
countrymen), was incorporated into the
resolutions presented to the House of Rep
resentaiives, December, 1893, by General
Henry Lee.
"Millions for defense, but not one cent
for tribute was by Charles c. Pinckney.
THE almighty dollar" Washington
Irving.
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MIR. Beecher's Fishing Companion.

A good story is told of the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher when years ago he spent
portion of his vacation as Ltchfeld. 1t
was before the war, when the distinction
even in our Northern States was marked
between the white man and the colored
man. Mr. Beecher had donned his regi-
mentals, as he called then, consisting of
high-top boots, farmers straw hat, blouse
coat, and pants tucked slouchingly inside
his boots. Lampson, the whitewasher,
was of gigantic form, and black as the ace
of spades.
Mr.. Beecher was in readiness 10 start for
Bantam Lake, when Mr.. Hollister. who
was to accompany him, was detained on
legal business by parties from ont of town.
q Never mind, Hollister," said Beecher,
will go on alone
The first person he met after leaving the
Mansion House was the black person, Mr..
Lampson.
" See here, my man, said Mr.. Beecher,
1" do you ever go fishing 2"
"Yes. sah.''
And enjoy it,
"Yes. sah.n
:. Well, then come with me-
While Lampson was absent for the horse
some one told him that his companion was
no less parsonage than the great preacher,
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AN EMPTY NEST.
grave old man and a maiden fair

A grave old man and q maiden fair
Walked together at early morn;
The thrushes up in the clear cool air
Sang to the farmer planting his corn.
And oh how sweet was the fresh-turnec
mound!
And oh how fair were the budding trees
For daisy's silver and daffodil's gold
Were full of the happy honey bees.
"a All, look there's an empty nest, she said
And l wonder where sing the last yeal ::
birds?a
Then the old man quickly raised his head.
Though scarcely he noted her musing words
He tore the nest from the swaying tree,
He flung to the winds its moss and hay.
And said I" When an empty nest you see,
Be sure that you throw it far away"
" But whyT' she asked, with sorrowing face
"Why may not the pretty home abide ~
Because he answered, twill be place
In which the worm and slug will hide.
Last year twas fair enough in its way
1t was full of love, and merry with song;
But days that are gone must not spoil to-day,
Nor dead joys do the living joys wrong"
The maiden heard with thoughtful face
Her first false love had gone far away
And she thought, Is my heart become place
For anger and grief and nate to stay?
Down. heart with thy sad forsaken nest
Fling far thy selfish and idle pain.
The love that it ours is always the best;
And she went with a smile to her work again
Mary A. Barr, in HdTpei's Magazine.
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the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Lampson
was awestricken. Forgetting to secure the
horse, he approached Mr.. Beecher, hat in
hand, and said:
" Be you Mr.. Beecher?n
:" Yes, laughed the great preacher; but
what of that? ?"
T" l was sure you had made mistake, or
perhaps you are most blind
F" Not in the least, my man. Come, the
sun is getting high; let's be off,
Lampson made another stand against &C.
cupying the same wagon seat with the
great man, but finally all obstacles were
removed and they started at rapid pace
down West Hill
The fishing was excellent, and Lampson
drew up his lines about as rapidly as he
could set them. Soon the bottom of the
boat was well filed with pickerel, roach,
and few catfish and one bass. But Mr..
Beecher had not been successful in making
a single haul.
As Lampson was gathering up the fish,
Mr.. Beecher still sat in the boat and
watched him with that serene expression
upon his face as he said: Don't tell me
that the black man is the white mans in
ferior. Look at the spoils Of to-day. Which
is the better man of the two?" From that
day out the colored people of Litchfield
had reverence for Mr. Beecher that ex-
ceeded that they felt for any other earthly
human being, and Lampson especially was
ready always to assert that he was one of
the greatest of the great men of the age
and time.-NelO Hdgen Nelcs.
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a FANTASY.
We may not choose our paths below,
Nor pass the narrow bounds
That still confne us as we go
Upon our daily rounds.

We may not choose our paths below,
Nor pass the narrow bounds
That still confne us as we go
Upon our daily rounds.
But visions of the far away,
The beautiful, the true,
Bright glimpses of brighter day
Still come to greet our view.
/ breathe the city's stihed air,
tread its paths of stone,
And mid the crowds that idly stare,
I walk my way alone.
as if up-built by magic hands,
Fair temp es round me rise;
And treasures rare from distant lands
Here greet my wondering eyes.
Wealth. beauty, fashion, walk the street,
Sweet music greets the ear;
Each day this thought l still repeat
Man rules supremacy here"
But far beyond the crowded street
And the city's gilded domes,
see the fields of waving wheat
And the quiet country homes.
hear the humming of the bees
All through the summer day
And in the shadows of the trees
see the lambs at play.
I breathe again the balmy air
That tells of fragran. flowers.
And shield me from the sunlights glare,
In b,ossom-laden bowers.
turn TO look on mountains grand,
And valleys far between
Bot works Of art on every hand
Dispel the cherished scene.
Again the noise and din of trade
Shut out all pleasing sounds,
And still make, as have made,
The city S beaten rounds.
But in my heart is a vision fair,
And a joyous melody,
As the shell bears with it everywhere
The music Of the sea.
II. J. RICHARDS.
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Young Girls

Are at a critical period when they are
about maturing and developing into
women. The lack of watchful care at this
time may result in fixing irregularities
upon delicate organs and entailing long
list of female weaknesses" ALI this may
be avoided, and the young woman. come
through this period clothed in all the
beauty and strength of perfectly healthy
organization by the aid of DR.. Pierce's
" Favorite Prescription, prepared especial
" for female troubles by one of the most
successful physicians of the day.
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ENERGY will do almost anything, but it
cannot exist if the blood is impure and
moves sluggishly in the veins. There is
nothing so good for cleansing the blood
and imparting energy to the system as
Ayers Sarsaparilla. Price, 81. Six bot
ties, So. Sold by druggists.
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THOSE complaining of Sore Throat or
Hoarseness should use Browns Bron-
chial Troches.' The eff ct is extraordi-
nary, particularly when used by singers and
speakers for clearing the voice Sold only
in boxes
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A SLIGHT cold often proves the forerun-
ner of complaint which may be fatal.
Avoid this result by taking Ayers Cherry
Pectoral. the best remedy for colds, coughs,
and all throat and lung diseases
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THE best regulator of digestive organs
and the best appetizer known is Angostura
Bitters. Try it, but beware of limitations.
Get from your grocer or druggist the genu-
inc article, manufactured by J. G. B. Sic
CERT & Sons.
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3 PHYSICIANS
FAILED.

The treatment of many thousands of cases
of those chronic weaknesses and distressing
ailments peculiar to females, at the Inyllids
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, n. Y,
has afforded a vast experience in nicely
adapting and thoroughly testing remedies
for the cure of woman's peculiar maladies
DIR. Pierce's EayOrite Prescription
is the outgrowth. or result, of this great
and valuable experience. Thousands of
testimonials, received from patients and
from physicians who have tested it in the
more aggravated and obstinate cases which
had baftled their skill, prove i to be the
most wonderful remedy ever devised for
the relief and cure of suffering women 1t
is not recommended as a " cure-all," but
as most perfect Specific for woman's
peculiar ailments.
AS powerful, iTivigorGtirg tonic
it imparts strength to the whole system,
and to the uterus, or womb and its APP
pendages, in particular. For ovcrworked,
''worn-out, +" rundown" debilitated teach
ers, milliners. dressmakers, seam6tresses,
''shop-girls." housel1eeperS, nursing moth
ers, and feeble women generally, DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the great
est earthly boon, being unequalled as an
appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. 1t
promotes digestion and assimilation of food,
Address TyGIsLDoS DESFl
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S;JAC0BS OH,
INFLAM RHEUMATISM.
From Rheumatic sufrerer-1sso- Cured.

RS-4fter lapse Of years statements confirming
The efficacy Of 81, Jacobs OIL and its permanent
cures, are giUen 6elOlU.
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HI pregnancy, {" Favorite Prescription
is "mother's cordial" relieving nausea,
weakness of stomach and other distressing
symptoms common to that condition. III
its use is kept up in the latter months of
CESSATION, it so prepares the system for de-
livery as to greatly lessen. and many times
almost entirely do away with the sufferingS
of that trying ordeal.
ssEaVOri:c Prescriptions when taken
in connection with the use of DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, and small laxa-
tive doses of DR.. Picrcc's Purgative Pellets
little Liver Pills, cures Liver, Kidney and
Bladder diseases. Their combined use also
removes blood taints, and abOlishes can
ccrous and scrofuloug humOrs from the
system.
medicine for women sold, by druggists,
under n positive guarantee, from the
manufacturers, that it will give satisfac-
ton in every case, or money will be re-
funded This guarantee has been printed
on the bOttle-wrapper, and faithfully car
RCD out for many years. Large bottles
N00 dcses1 $I.0O, or six bottles for
$500.
- Send ten cents in stamps for DIR.
Pierces large, illustrated Treatise Q60
pages) on Diseases of Women.
}. Ge3 IE:in street, BUFFALO, n. Y. (
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cures nausea. weakness of stomach, indi-
gestion, bloating and eructations of gas.
As soothing and STRENGTHENING
nervine, Favorite Prescription is un-
cqualled and is invaluable in allaying and
sIibduing nervous excitability, irritability,
exhaustion, prostitution, hysteria, spasms
and other distressing, nervous symptoms
commonly attendant upon functional and
organic disease of the womb. 1t induces
refreshing sleep and relieves mental anx-
iety and dependency.
DIR. Piercess EaVOrite Prescription
IS q legitimate medicine. carefully
compounded by an experienced and skilifuI
physician. and adapted to woman's delicate
Organization. it is purely vegetable in its
composition and perfectly harmless in ITS
effects in any condition of the system.
.sEavOritc Prescription Is posi-
tive cure for the most complicated and
obstinate cases of leucorrhea, or whites,
excessive flowing at monthly periods, pain
full menstruation. unnatural st1ppressions,
prolapsus or falling of the womb, weak
back, female weakness" antevcrsion, re-
troyersiou, bearing-down sensations, chron-
SC congestion, inflammation and ulceration
of the womb, inflammation, pain and ten
derncss in oyaries, accompanied with IL
ternal heat"
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Cheeseman's Specific Mixture.

With this remedy persons can cure themselves
without the least exposure. change Of diet or
change in application to business. The medi-
cine contains nothing that is Of the least injury
to the constitution. Ask your druggi,t Tor it.
Price 81 a bottle fe26-lyWo
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She liked now to sit under the shade of
the gray green olive trees on the sunny
vine trellised terrace.
She could hear the wind rustliDg in the
bamboos in the dry ditch. Ii was there
she used to sit with Antonio on the worn
stone bench and watch for babbo coming
home from his scientific laboratory. 1t
pleased her TO linger there in the fragrant
stiffness, while the lizards crept close to her
feet with their strange bright eyes staring
at her out of little FACILITATING bodies.
Sometimes Antonio had lured a green
lizard to crawl on his hand.
Kind. faithful Antonio dearest of broth
ers If he could but return and the old
peaceful life go on as before, reading and
singing and planting flowers, and laughing
with Annunziata, as happiest brother and
sister. while babbo smiled at them through
the amiable mists that rose from his
dreams of queer beasts. But Francesca
was troubled at the bottom of her heart,
for she knew she was deceiving herself
and caressing an idle fancy. Antonio
loved her with no brotherly love.
Then Francesca was aware of voices
creeping upon the silence. The air was
broken by wandering cries. From the dis
lance rolled sounds of trampling feet.
They came nearer and nearer, hurrying
along the street, and loud huzzahs burst
forth Viva la patria-viya la Garibaldi-
viva il Rern Now and then the wailing OF
woman rose plaintiyely amid the JOYOUS
shouts. "Italia-Italia-viya la patlia"-
Suddenly there was stiffness, and after
a space, a shrill scream from Annunziata
Francesca sprang to her feet and moved
quickly acruss the garden. The professors
appeared on the portico with his hair
blown about and his eyes scared and start
ing from under his shaggy gray brows.
Carina, carina," he suffered, and, seiz-
ing Prancesca's hand, he drew her into the
large stone kitchen.
There was quite crowd about the door
that opened or the street. Old Annnnziata
! had fallen on chair with her apron flung
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100 |
THROWN away. |
The GREATEST |
| EARTHLY BOON
TREATING The WRONG DISEASE.

The 'Favorite Prescripti
poor suffering women"
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injury and would not speak. The tears
welled into her dark eyes, but she kept
them fixed on the hill behind which the
sun had dipped, and the tangled bars OF
changing clouds above that streaked the
rudy skies. She never once glanced down
at the garden where Antonio was directing
the gardener.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
ALLEGED s-1are for Corns.

The Journal Of App1ied Chemistry says:
:sSoak the feet well in warm water, then
with a sharp instrument pare off as much
of the corn as can be done without pain,
and bind up the part affected with a
piece of muslin thoroughly saturated with
sperm oil, or what is better, the oil
which floats upon the surface of the
pickle of herring or mackerel. After
three or four days the dressing may be
removed, and the remaining dead cutlcle
removed by scraping, when the new skin
will be found of a soft and healthy tex
ture, and less liable to the formation of a
new corn than before. We have this
recipe from a source which we cannot
we'll doubt, and publish it for thebenefit
of many suffering readers" The pain
occasioned by Germs may be greatly allie
waited by the following preparation: In
a onc-ounce vial ask q druggist to put
two drachms of muriatic acid and six
drachms of rose water. With this mix
ture wet the corns night and morning
for three days. Soak the feet every
evening in warm water without soap.
Put one-third of the acid into the water,
and with a little picking the corn will
be dissolved.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
MOHY to Take q Bath.

There is a right and a wrong way oil
| taking a bath. The wrong way may re-
suit in evil, but the proper mode of bath
ing is sure to bring benefit. A separate
| bath-tub is not essential in taking a
good sponging. For healthy persons,
who are accustomed to a daily bath, cold
water would be best ON account of its
invigorating influences. Those, who
can take a bath only nee a week, had
better use warm or tcpid water, as it
c~leanscs the body more thoroughly. In
using warm water caution should be
taken, to avoid contracting colds. The
best way is to sponge the body with cold
water Immediately after the warm has
been applied; have a coarse crash towel
at hand and rub the body thoroughly
until a flush and glow appears all over
the surface.
A warn bath should not be taken in a
cold room. It is well to have the tenn
perature of the water correspond some
what with that of the room. If the
bather has no tub, but merely uses the
sponge and bowl, great care should be
taken to avoid exposing much of ones
person at a time. Beginning at the
head, sponge but a portion of the body
at a time; rub and dry the moistened
part, and continue this plan until the
bath is completed. Especially do we
advise this method, when the combined,
warm and cold bath is taken. We
would lay some stress on the advantage
of using cold water. It is much supe-
rior as a guard against cold. Weakly
or invalid people should be warned,
however, against using cold water if
their system is not vigorous or robust
enough to Withstand its sudden inAu-
nee. If it gives a shock to the system,
the bather must desist at once. But if
"a pleasurable feeling is experienced and
a glowing sensation follows, it is always
the sign of a healthful and successful
bath; no fear of taking cold need then
be entertained-HeaM and Home.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
Profnnifu

When Fitzpatrick was a lieutenant
colonel of cavalry, says the Phi iladelphia
Record, he met with a deserved rebuke
for his profanity. Custer was with him
when he rode up to a sergeant of the
guard in his regiment, and, swearing at
him furiously, ordered him to attend to a
certain matter that had been neglected.
The man folded his arms and stood at
bay, looking Fitzpatrick squarely in the
eye. do you hear M, -- you2'
said the latter; '.why don't you do as I
tell youa' when 7 receive a proper
order / shall obey said the soldier
firmly; s'the articles Of wal forbid you
to address me in the language you have
used Custer "snickered right out in
meeting, = and said in d stage whisper:
BY, he's got you, Kill Colonel
Fitzpatrick saw the point at once, and in
a very manly way changed his front and
apologizad. Sergeant, 7 said he, "you
are right and apologize; I should not
have addressed you as / did, TAen he
gave his orders,, the man touched his cap
respectfully and turned away to fulfil
the command, and Fitzpatrick rose many
degrees in the estimation of his soldiers.
PHILADELPHIA Record.